August 5, 2011
The word of the day is “hapless.” Antonym: “hapful.”
“Hapless” came from the word “hap”, which meant:
one’s luck or lot.
Thus, “hapless” would mean luckless, or unfortunate, unlucky.
“unfortunate,” c.1400, from hap (n.) in the sense “good luck” -less.
Although “hap” has the meaning of “occurrence, happening, event”, “hapless” came from “hap”‘s meaning of “luck”, not it’s other meaning(the above).